Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1938 — Page 7

agabon From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Saratoga Spa Is Operated by the State, but Somehow Has the Air

Of Catering Only to Rich Trade.

SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 27.—The word “spa” has always intrigued me. I never knew exactly what a spa was, but I knew rich Americans went clear to Europe to be in one.

So I had formed a vague picture of a spa as something halfway between an Alpine village and Waikiki beach. The Saratoga Spa has disillusioned me about that. It is 1400 acres of flat land, about

a mile from town, fronting on the Albany-Saratoga Highway. There is no beach, and no mountain. The whole thing is beautifully austere, like a formal garden, and is owned by the State of New York. : Saratoga first built up its name as a spa under private ownership. But the springs were drained almost to extinction. The State stepped in about 25 years ago, to conserve the precious mineral waters, but it was not until ; Ha the Thirties. that it eally Wo bo , bat to make something big of ‘the Me. Pyle Saratoga Spa. Pirst, the State capped most of the mineral springs, leaving 24 open for spa use. : Then the State set about creating a new Saratoga Spa. Already $8,500,000 has been spent in ground, labor and buildings. There are three huge bath“houses, a golf course, tennis courts, even horseshoe courts. There is a recreational center with a huge swimming pool, and umbrella-shaded tables on the brick terrace around the pool. : To There is a bottling plant, a large administration building and a drinking hall with marble pillars and Versailles chandeliers. There are picnic grounds, forest groves, scores of acres of closely clipped lawns, and miles of walks.

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You see little signs telling just what the grade of

each path is. Sometimes it’s only an inch in a hundred yards, but an inch is a lot to a bum heart. When you drive or walk around this elaborate outlay, you see practically nobody. The spa is certainly no Coney Island. It’s a place either for the _ sorely afflicted, or the fashionable rich. You see practically nobody who looks as if anything was wrong with him. You see far too many hale and deeply tanned people in long black limousines with chauffeurs. There is just one place to stay on the reservation —the Gideori-Putnam Hotel. The common people have to stay in downtown Saratoga, a mile away, and that’s tough. The usual course of bath treatments lasts three weeks. Now I could stand three weeks at the spa, but not three weeks in downtown Saratoga. One side of the street is Hollywood, the other is plantation stuff out of the Civil War. Giant old hotels join each other in a string that runs three blocks. You're charged double rates for a room with drooping wallpaper and exposed plumbing.

150,000 Baths Given Annually

Saratoga has got it into its head over the years that it has only one month to make a living, and that _ is race month. The day after the track closes, everybody just gives up. There appears to be some little feeling of conflict between the spa and the townspeople. The locals stick to their race-track tradition of one month a year. They won't fix up nice places in an effort to get all-year-round spa visitors. : Yet thousands do come and take baths, in spite of the inconveniences. Around 150,000 baths a year are given at the spa. Baths range in price from $3 down to $1.50, depending on the privacy of your bath. . So far as I can see, the only purpose of the spa should be to benefit sick people. It belongs to the: ‘State, and should be available to any’ citizen with an ache or a pain. : > Yet the place has an air of unavailability. The spa officials themselves do not wish it to be snooty. They want to keep it high-class, but available to everybody. Yet prices are high. There is no place to stay

unless youre rich. The recreation center is like an

exclusive country club. Saratoga Spa, the only real spa in America, and a public institution, is somehow distant from the common man. It seems to me a shame.

My Diary

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Winter Is On Its Way! First Lady Begins Preparing Christmas Lists.

YDE PARK, Friday.—Winter is certainly drawing near. Mrs. Scheider and I spent an hour yesterday getting my Christmas lists ready. I am not sure the habit I have of acquiring things all through the year for Christmas is a very good one, for I forget what I have bought and find myself confronted with parcels without the faintest recollection of the particular person for whom a particular gift was intended. I realize I must begin really to plan, and so we started yesterday. The next thing will be the setting of all the official dates for state functions, but that will not be done until the first week in tober, when Mrs. Helm will be back in Washington. In the wee small hours of the night I finished a very good story: “The Dark River,” by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. It is charmingly written and I think anyone could enjoy if, though it is distinctly just a story for one’s lighter moments. In a few minutes, I will be off to pick up Mr. and ~ Mrs. David Gray at Tivoli to visit young Forbes Morgan and his wife on the farm they have just bought. We hear a great deal about young people returning to life on the farm, but this is the first young member of our family who is actually going into farming as a career and I am very keen to see what "he is doing. With intelligence and industry I think a rural life can be made not only pleasant, but most interesting for a young couple. : After this visit we are going on to see Mr. and Mrs. Chester Braman. I was surprised to have Mr. Braman tell me the other day that he often flew over our cottage here in his amphibian plane on his way . down to New York City and back to his landing field on a little lake near his home,

Apple and Pear Crops Are Good

This is the use which I hoped we would be able to make of amphibian planes along the Hudson River and I am quite pleased at the thought that a young couple is actually doing it. Before long, perhaps, we may find communities buying planes together and operating them as a joint undertaking for the convenience of the neighborhood. A few people are coming to lunch with the President. For him this is a fairly quiet day. Tomorrow, in contrast, will be a busy day! This seems to be a wonderful year for apples and pears, at least in our vicinity. I suppose that will mean that people who depend on their orchards for cash crops will not get good prices. I have a great deal of pleasure, nevertheless, out of seeing trees laden down with fruit. Also, the fruit we actually eat in the orchard or garden always tastes much better than what we buy, so I may as well rejoice with those who grow fruit for home consumption.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 27—I believe that when a man has spent his allotted time on this earth and has passed on to the next phase, there is only one of two things you can say about it—he’s either enjoyed his stay here or he hasn't. That's the reason, I think, a man who is working at something he enjoys, even though he makes a bare livin’, is much

better off than the man who amasses a fortune.

through drudgery. 5 I knew an old banker, who jest before he died, said if he had it to live over again, he'd live the life of a fireman. He said that had always been his lifelong ambition. I says “Well, is it because you wanted a chance to save a life or a limb?” And he says “No —all my life I've liked to sit and picture things in the fire!” : ti a x

Politics in South Carolina Style

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1938

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Heated Debates of Senatorial Candidates Attract National Attention

By Thomas L. Stokes

Times Special Writer

EWBERRY, S. C., Aug. 27.—South Carolina’s most bitter Senatorial primary since the days of Pitchfork Ben Tillman is winding up in a lather of sweat and venom. In this little city among the cotton and corn fields occurred the next-to-last of the public debates in which candidates must engage. These debates have attracted more national attention to the state this year, it seems, than anything since some hot-blooded young men started firing at Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor because they didn’t like the way the Yankees were running the country.

Yankees, and particularly one named Franklin D. Roosevelt, are being blamed once more; that is, if you listen to Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith as he fights back the President’s attempt to unseat him. (You can almost hear the guns of Sumter rumble again.) But it’s not quite that way if you listen to the two other men who want the Senate seat that old “Cotton Ed” has warmed for nigh on to 30 years—broad-shouldered Governor Olin Johnston and businesslike State Senator Edgar Brown, who never gets excited enough to shake off his nose glasses. Both of them say it’s the New Deal that the Senator doesn’t like. They're for it. The primary is Tuesday. Newberry got the last of the traveling circus — and Newberry was proud. ” 8 2

HE crowd spilled out onto the

Court House steps under a

sun that was blistering even at 10 a. m. Inside the lobby the folks scraped their feet noisily as they tried to worm their way inside— men in shirtsleeves and overalls, women clutching palm-leaf fans and damp handkerchiefs, a young woman with a baby nestled wonderingly in her arms. : “Let’s get em out o’ here and hold the speaking outside so we can hear,” suggested one man. A plump little old lady, pale. from the heat pushed through the crowd to get out.

“Yes, Miss Mary, you'd better!

get out o’ there.” She smiled wanly, holding her

| fan tight in both hands.

“You're too low down—you can’t get any of that top air,” said a tall man, sympathetically, as she made for:the door. Inside, every seat was taken. Men and women stood in the aisles and overflowed onto the judge's bench. ;

South Carolina takes its politics

seriously, even in ordinary years, and how seriously this year was suggested when the chairman an-

- nounced that he expected quietude

and respect and “if there’s anyone come here to heckle, let him de-

part.” 2 2 8 HEN the show started, with “Cotton Ed” first. Before long he was taking the

- campaign back to where lots of

folks predicted months ago he would take it—to the Negro issue -—and as he walked up and down

in the little space before the front row he waved his arms and bellowed mightily. “When I walked into that convention I couldn’t believe my eyes! It. was black and white like a checkerboard!” His audience tittered. They anticipated the old story about the Democratic National Convention at Philadelphia. “And a Southern Democratic Senator walked to the front of the platform and he said Rev. So-and-So will lead us in prayer. Then this kinky-headed, bluegummed, black senegambian stepped up and said, ‘let us pray.’ As, he raised his hand I walked out.” The audience cheered. ' They gave “Cotton Ed” a good hand, too, as he told of the C. I. O., Labor's Nonpartisan League and the Association for the Advancement of Colored People being against him, and described these organizations as “the combination that has taken the Negro in as an economic and social equal.” “They have indorsed Governor Johnston!” he shouted. “He can have it!” 2 8 8 UT his foes will not let him forget the “50 cents a day”— that is, the charge that he said 50 cents a day was enough for anybody in South Carolina, which "the President repeated when he stopped briefly at Greenville after announcing his “purge” of Senator George of Georgia. The Senator didn't exactly say that, as he is demonstrating by passing around replicas of the page in the Congressional Record which carries his speech. But he might as well have said it. Ever since Mr. Roosevelt repeated the charge it has become the leading campaign issue—which all goes to show that it is not possible in the Roosevelt regime to sidetrack the issues as was always done in the South hitherto. Edgar Brown would not let Senator Smith forget it. : ~ “President Roosevelt made a survey. What did he discover? We discovered that Smith was a 50-cent-a-day man.” Mr. Brown arrived at the Court House after the Senator had spoken. : “I didn’t hear what Senator Smith said,” he told the audience. “If he followed his speeches elsewhere, he did not say anything about the issues—but he’s talked about state rights and high tariff, and about the antilynching bill, and about how he walked out of the Democratic convention because of a Negro praying—-" And along with Governor Johnston, who roars in a hoarse, bull

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voice, came the 50. cents a day again. “Never would Olin Johnston insinuate that anybody can live on 50 cents a day!” he shouted. .

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OVERNOR JOHNSTON was at the Philadelphia convention and didn’t walk out when the Negro prayed. But he proclaimed his opposition to the antilynching bill, as did State Senator ‘Brown, and also dug way back to 1896 to prove that “Cotton Ed” in the South Carolina Legislature had voted to recommit a JimCrow law. : ; These things seem mighty important. :

But old “Cotton Ed” came back

at his opponents for the 50-cents-

a-day charge, which he branded a “damn lie.” : Neither one’ of them, he said,

would be worth 50 cents a day.

The crowd guffawed. And on receiving a basket of flowers when he finished speaking—a custom in these debates— he really laid them low: :

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Governor Johnston

“Maybe 41} preserve it: and. put it on the political graves of tnose two men against me.”

d the ‘Mulberry Bush.

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Senator Smith

He drew back, looking at the flowers and grinned a slow, sly grin.

Senate Committee, Convinced State Control Is Ineffective, Seeks Federal Law Regulating Congressional Primaries

By E.R. R.

ASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—When ¥ the new Congress meets next January it will be asked by the special Senate Committee on Campaign

Expenditures to enact legislation regulating the conduct of Congressional primary elections in the states. Such primaries are now regulated only by state law, and the special committee’s investigations of 1938 Democratic primary contests in Tennessee, Kentucky and several other states, where it found evidence of “gutter politics” and “scandal of the worst sort,” have convinced it that state control is ineffective. That this year’s Democratic primaries have been the most bifterly fought contests in many years is due in part to the recognition that in a growing number of states, as

-in the Solid South, nomination on

the Democratic ticket is tantamount to election and in part to the party split on the issue of loyalty to the New Deal.

President Roosevelt's active support of “100 per cent New Dealers” in both House and Senate, and his attempted “purge” of outstanding Democratic opponents of Administration policies, have served to widen the cleavage within the party and thus to intensify the virulence of Democratic primary battles. While the factors basically responsible for the present situation are more or less temporary, the growing centralization of functions in the Federal Government, has vastly increased the potential danger of patronage abuses. This development, it is argued, makes it imperative that election practices in Congressional primaries be controlled by Federal legislation.

Grice 40 states impose some test of the voter’s party affiliation as

a prerequisite for participation in the primary, thus compelling him to disclose the party for whose candidates he intends to vote, coercion of voters in a primary election is less difficult than in a general election. At the present time, moreover, votes of relief recipients are important chiefly in primaries, because, as Administrator Hopkins recently observed, a large majority of the voters in this category may be expected to cast their ballots for Democratic candidates in the general election. The direct primary method of nomination for public office, which appears to have been conceived by the winner of an essay contest conducted by the Union League Club of Philadelphia in the 1860s, was first employed in 1868, when the Republican Party in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, substituted

it for the delegate convention system. The new system spread rapidly westward and into the South. In 1904, Wisconsin and Oregon, under the leadership of the elder La Follette and of William S. U’Ren, became the first states to set up statewide direct primary systems on a mandatory basis. By 1917, some form of ‘direct primary had been established in 44 states. . :

2 8 8 T the present time, only three states—Connecticut, New Mexico and Rhode Island use the convention system of nomination exclusively. In the remaining 45 states, candidates for most public offices

are chosen in primaries. In 40 of these states, direct-primary laws are mandatory. In five states, the direct primary, though commonly employed, is optional. Three states—Indi-

ana, Maryland, and New York—require the nomination of United States Senators and elective state officers by convention. While the direct primary system has failed to attain one of its chief objectives—destruction of the stranglehold of political bosses on party machinery—many of its revealed abuses are held by its proponents

‘to be the result of imperfections in

the party system itself. Moreover, it is argued that some of these abuses could be corrected through

stringent corrupt practices legisla-|.

tion. The ineffectiveness of state laws on this subject, and the fact that they do not apply to many of the primary practices which have come into use during recent years, are cited by -advocates of Federal regulation as evidence of the need for control of primaries for Federal offices on a national basis.

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1—Where is United States paper money printed ? : : 2—Which state is known as “The Cornhusker State”? : 3—Name the longest river in Africa. ii 4—With what sport is the name - of Patty Berg associated? 15—Will a dead human body con.duct electricity? CE §Do Oysters live in fresh wa-

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To Try Your Hand at Figuring Out ~ The Current Political Situations

ASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Give us back - the simple days, those times when you

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rule. a _ Republicans were for a full dinner pail. That’s all there was to it. If you weren't for free silver, then you were a gold bug. Put us back, please, into that twilight sleep when President Harding was for America first and all you had to de was to keep cool with Coolidge. : Politics is all cockeyed now. New Dealers don’t know whether to be for free. competition or monopoly or both. Mr. Roosevelt was supposed to have been bought ’and paid for by John L. Lewis but up at Hyde Park this week he’s been cooing with William Green of the A. F. of L. : - Who is managing the Maryland

| campaign for Senator.Tydings, the

reactionary Democrat who voted against the Adminisiration nore A. often than the Republican Vanden- : Ls berg? Why, bless you, the Tydings Mr Clapper: manager is a New Deal Senator, Radcliffe, a formen ‘business associate of Mr. Roosevelt's. 0 ‘Mr. Roosevelt looks over the House of Represenfae tives and picks just one member to stand for publio execution. His designated victim is the brother of Basil O'Connor, Mr, Roosevelt's former law partner and still a frequent traveling companion. Mr. Roosevelt, who has risen with the help of Republican votes, now proclaims the immorality of Republicans voting in Democratic primaries. Where else can Republicans vote any more. . pit Neither do the Republicans make it any simpler for us. Republican National Chairman John Hamile ton is going around the country building up Mr, Roosevelt for a third term. I'm supposed to be for ‘Mr. Roosevelt but he isn’t my candidate for 1940, He's John Hamilton’s. The Republicans want him to run, They figure if they can keep Mr. Roosevelt running long enough, they can tire him out and catch up with him. And who is backing Thomas Jefferson now? The Republican National Committee. ;

Labor Is Tangled Up

Labor is all tangled up in its political lines, too. In Ohio the C. I. O. got behind a corporation lawyer, one of the biggest businessmen in the state, Sawyer, for Governor. . ; Labor and Mr. Roosevelt are supposed to sleep in the same bed. But who is labor supporting in Georgia? The A. F. of L. and the railroad brother

| hood lobbies here have indorsed Senator George, the

conservative purgee of the New Deal. In South Carolina these labor organizations are for Senator Cotton Ed Smith, the reactionary who is opposed by a former millhand and champion of labor, Governor Johnston, Senators George and Smith opposed the Wages= and-Hours Bill. That’s one reason—if you can follow it—that the A. F. of L. is trying to save them. These opponents of the Wages-and-Hours Bill get the first. call on A. F. of L. support. They are not supporting Senator Tydings, however. He was a little too much with Mr. Roosevelt in: backing Rep. David J. Lewis. * ° A dx You can’t even figure ‘out any more what the object of a political indorsement is. "The Republican National Committeeman ih Georgia indorsed George, the conservative Democrat. You might naturally think the purpose of the indorsement{ was to help Senator George. But some here hold another opinion and suspect the New Deal instigated the indorsement to queer Senator George. It hurt Senator George more than Mr. Roosevelt's Barnesville speech. Politics has become so screwy that every boost is a knock. -

Jane Jordan—

Rest Case for a While, Jane Tells Husband Seeking to Win Back Wife.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a man in my forties. About five years ago I married a girl in her twenties after going with her for two years. I talked - to her about the difference in our ages, but as we thought a lot of each other it didn’t ‘seem to be any obstacle at the time. We moved from town to the country and by hard work we were doing fine and getting a nice start. We still thought lots of each other, but she liked to go a lot. With my work and stock we couldn’t go as much as we would have liked. On the advice of some of her friends she left me and went back to her home town where she is now wor in a private home. She has been gone about 1 weeks. I have written her several times but she won’t ~answer the letters or see me. I've sold everything to get her to return, but she won't. I never drank or went out without her, but she just got to where she hated country life. PERPLEXED.

Answer—It seems to me that you and your wife should have been able to talk this out and arrive at some compromise as to your mode of living before she took so drastic a step. You say you have sold out everything in order to get her to return. You could have done this beforehand when things first began to pall upon her. Or did she tell you how she felt?

Since these preventive measures have been neg lected, I.should think that the first thing to do woul be to let her alone for a while. Give her a chance t0 feel the pinch of loneliness before you plead your case, After you've given her a rest, if she won't answer your letters, you'll have to call on her. Don’t say anything about her coming back just at Best i host ] 8. ‘was the country she hated and not you, perhaps she will be glad to have you take her out from time to time. Pocus your attention on the side of life you neglected and show her that you are aware of her need for diversion. : 2 If your efforts bear no fruit you'll have to call it a day and give up. No man should waste time trying to overcome a woman's determined “no.” ;

3 8 8 = § Si EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a.girl of 15. I go with a man who is 14 years older than I am, My parents do not want me to go with him because he is so much older than I'am. Should I continue goe ing with him or quit him? ~. TROUBLED. Answer—Read the above letter and think hard, parents think of the future. You think only of

marriage now, but are you cutting yourself off from friends your own age? ° * JANE JORDAN. nt Tour iestions 1a i fuse 2300, Jordan. "ae va)

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